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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

One of the Stupidest Articles I've Seen in a Long Time

From Why do U.S. Conservatives and Progressives Share a Hatred of North Korea?:
    "Despite various good points we cannot ignore, the United States is a society in need of enlightenment in several ways. The rashness of first thinking that people in turbans and beards are terrorists, the simple mindedness of conceptualizing the world into a Christian 'civilization' and non-Christian 'anti-civilization,' and the dichotomy of regarding nations that are ideologically different from the United States as 'evil,' are examples of this."

The author, Kang In Kyu, is doing Ph.D. work in media studies at the University of Wisconsin. It seems he's had a bit too much American political correctness for his own good. His article is an excellent example of "Occidentalism."